{"id":367513,"date":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367513"},"modified":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","slug":"welder-jailed-over-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367513","title":{"rendered":"Welder jailed over fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A welder, Kweku Sefa, popularly known as Pusher, is to spend a year jail term after an Accra Circuit Court\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_973353475\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0found him guilty on the charges of defrauding by false pretenses.<\/p>\n<p>Sefa is said to have defrauded Edward Ofori, a businessman of GHc60,000.00, under the pretext of providing him with two boxes of so-called pipe joint sealants used mainly by engineers, but were however found not to be genuine.<\/p>\n<p>The Court further ordered Sefa to pay an outstanding balance of GHc49,000.00 to the complainant, Mr. Ofori.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Agnes Boafo, said the complainant resides at East Legon in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, Sefa, who introduced himself as Agyemang and Cisse, approached the complainant to supply him two boxes of the so-called products.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant gave the convict GHc60,000.00, and when he went to check, the products were found not to be genuine.<\/p>\n<p>A report was made to the Police and Sefa was arrested at a drinking spot at Ayawaso, near Pokuase.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution said Sefa explained that he was only asked by one Tugah to collect the amount on his behalf, and that he only got GHc5,000.00 as his share.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A welder, Kweku Sefa, popularly known as Pusher, is to spend a year jail term after an Accra Circuit Court\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0found him guilty on the charges of defrauding by false pretenses. Sefa is said to have defrauded Edward Ofori, a businessman of GHc60,000.00, under the pretext of providing him with two boxes of so-called pipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":244947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1964,3,1965],"class_list":["post-367513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-court-news","tag-ghana-news","tag-judgement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}